For a week, it was worth a giggle. A flustered trackside nascar reporter attempting to avoid cursing on the news? That’s hilarious. Like every joke and/or horse, it was rapidly beaten past death. The body still receives unironic thwacks to this day.
Then it was revived as satire and resumed being funny for a fresh week or two. This was over a year ago. The horse is not just dead, it is not even a paste or powder, it has been completely aerosolized in a closed crimson room where people fan it back and forth in remembrance of beating its corpse.
Biden’s the best chance for continued democracy in the US, but I’ve been breathing in Brandon particulate since 2021 and I’m afraid it will give me lung cancer.
It’s not really about the humor. It’s always about the cruelty or, in this case, cruelty’s sibling: mockery. To their twisted mindset, cruelty towards their perceived enemies is always funny and/or righteous.
Once I realized most Republicans only care about making the ‘libtards’ suffer, everything they do finally started to make sense.
They consistently vote against their own interests. They elect obvious cartoonish scumbags. They get outraged about nonexistent wars on Christmas. They think Democrats are cunning and powerful overlords controlling everything, but…Democrats are also (simultaneously, somehow) incompetent fools and suckers.
The cognitive dissonance is drowned out by their blind hatred. That’s why they post social media replies like “seethe” because that’s what they do, 24x7. They’re seething crazy-angry all of the time. They can’t go five minutes without thinking about politics or putting their right wing spin on every anodyne topic of conversation. They ban wholesome children’s books. They actively strip away basic human rights while claiming to be victims of the same. They steal elections and break the rules of congress and the courts while calling the other side cheaters.
They are quite willing to see the planet’s environment burn to the point of mass extinctions…as long as the ‘libtards’ suffer more.
Once you understand their “cruelty first” philosophy, and see them through this lens, their behavior becomes sadly predictable.
That’s right wing humor in a nutshell, find a joke that’s kinda funny or witty and drive it into the ground for the foreseeable future. I thought it was pretty funny too at first, but it’s years past its expiration date
At least it gave them a second joke after years of beating the “attack helicopter” thing to death again and again.
It was funny live, in the moment. The next day it was a dead meme.
The problem it was never a joke, it was always barely conscious retards saying “Let’s go Brandon” thinking it was some kind of clever inside joke and that no one knew what they were actually saying
Without it, we wouldn’t have Dark Brandon, which is hilarious
Dark Brandon managed 2 nonconsecutive weeks of giggles. The second being when Biden’s staff picked up the meme and ran with it. It’s very stale unless used provocatively.
Edit: you’re welcome to use a years old joke on the internet. Just don’t lie to yourself about it still being funny.
I was worried no one would hit what I teed up. Good show.
Great thing about it is come back to it in ten years and they’ll tell you to shut up. Ala Jake the plumber.
Til he was an actual guy
if not funny why do i laugh hmm 🧐
It’s deader than all those people in tiananmen square
But the real question is why would you want continued democracy as it currently exists? Choice between bad or mediocre. No parliamentary representation proportional to the people. No votes of no-confidence. Infinite corporate money in lobbying and SPACs.
Why are you trying to save that?
Let it fail. Replace with better. Use your time and energy post revolution to shape a real country or countries going forward.
I once caught a foreign influence campaign this big. If the options are ok or hellfuck, I choose ok. You’re better off locating the addresses of lobbyists if you’re already considering things post-collapse.
The senile man controlled like a puppet by a shadowy cabal is the best chance for democracy. The party with the word democracy in their name is hellbent on appointing them instead of allowing their constituents to choose someone better. They want to force a man who represents a significant chunk of the electorate to be removed from ballots. This is the future of democracy.
You don’t know what “let’s go Brandon” is. It’s not funny because some reporter wanted to avoid cursing on TV. It’s funny because some reporter was trying to hide the utter disdain america has for Joe biden and thought she could think fast and hide it and thought that the audience was too stupid to get it. It’s facetious and has layers. It’s alluding to the idea you can’t candidly speak truth in the US. Its laughing at the media’s attempt to whitewash our politics. And lastly, it means “fuck Joe biden” which at this point almost everyone in the US agrees.
The right doesn’t like him, the left doesn’t like him, the neolibs don’t like him, nobody likes him, but people will vote for him because the elites that rule over us take our options away. “Best chance for democracy” lol Joe biden is proof that democracy is dead in america, he is emblematic of that fact.
Lol wow delusionality to the extreme
Alright what’s your clear headed, correct take?
I mean sure, but there’s nothing you can do about it in the short term besides philosophizing a binary decision. Who’re you voting for?
I get the argument, and it would be disconnected from reality to disagree. “Yeah, the democrats are taking our options away, but what choice do we have?” In the US, it always comes down to 2 people and you pick one even if you don’t like them.
I’m not going to vote. I vote on principle, I believe that voting is giving legitimacy to a democratic system. And this system does not have legitimacy anymore, and probably hasn’t in quite some time. Democracy is dead in america and it’s just a veneer, a show, and I don’t want to grant legitimacy in my mind and heart to a Potemkin democracy. I will not put one ounce of effort legitimizing the lie that I have any representation in this country.
That’s most definitely an option, but it does little good. If you’d like to see yourself represented, I recommend local elections. National elections are only good for stemming the bleeding whereas local can offer a surprisingly vast allotment of improvements. The pacifist’s prayer is worth infinitely less than the chud’s vote.
You write great fan fiction.
